We have several companies, and each has a name as its own type of business. How do I assign this bill payment to a specific type of business?

Do you manage several businesses in one QBO account?

When managing several companies using a single QuickBooks Online (QBO) account, the location or class tracking feature is used to properly categorize data from different branches of the company, userespiryakova.

Please note that the location or class field is not available in bill payment transactions, you can only use it when creating bills. As a workaround, you can use an expense or check transaction to pay your bills directly or  utilize the Memo field to specify which business type you're using.

1. Go the Expenses menu.
   
2. Under Expenses, locate the and open bill.
3. Select Mark as paid and set the correct payment account.
   
4. Enter the amount and the business type in the Memo field.
5. Hit Save and close.

Just a heads up, to prevent the mixing of finances from different businesses, it's recommended to manage them on separate QBO subscriptions. If you're handling companies with d different EINs under one account, you can coordinate with your accountant to ensure that everything is properly recorded.

To see all the payments you made to your vendors, you run the Expenses by Vendor Summary report in QuickBooks Online.

You can always revisit this thread if you have further inquiries about bill payments or any other QuickBooks-related concerns. The Community is always here to support you.